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XML DOM ownerDocument Property


Attr Object Reference Attr Object

Definition and Usage

The ownerDocument property returns the root element (document object) for a node.

Syntax

attrObject.ownerDocument


Example

The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc using loadXMLDoc() and returns the root element of the first category attribute node:

Example

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");

x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('book');

document.write(x.item(0).attributes[0].ownerDocument);
document.write("<br />");
document.write(x.item(0).attributes[0].ownerDocument.nodeName);
document.write("<br />");
document.write(x.item(0).attributes[0].ownerDocument.nodeType);

The output of the code above will be:

[object XMLDocument]
#document
9

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Attr Object Reference Attr Object
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